How do we prepare students to compete in the global economy?How is globalization affecting technological change in public schools?How might students and educato... » 

How do we prepare students to compete in the global economy?How is globalization affecting technological change in public schools?How might students and educators maneuver through the interplay oftechnological change and organizational restructuring?Based on extensive field work conducted with the Los Angeles Public SchoolSystem the 2nd largest in the United States Globalization TechnologicalChange and Public Education provides the first in depth ethnographic study ofthe interrelation globalization Information technology and public schooling.The book offers a holistic perspective on the effects of technological changeorganizational restructuring and geographical emplacement upon the lives ofpeople in the system. The book successfully illustrates the resonance thatthese changes have with similar ones occurring in other public institutions andplaces.Globalization Technological Change and Public Educationbridges theory with real practice by concludingeach chapter withrecommendations for how people working within the school systems could improvethe organizations to better meet the needs of students and teachersprovides compelling photographic examples of how technology is implemented indifferent schools and to what endreveals how technology can maintain rather than eradicate inequalities amongschools «